Earlier this week, I posted a new feature on the site that counted unique visitors and the country each is from. The vast majority of those who come here are from the USA, Canada, the UK, and Australia. But I am honored to note that people from 82 countries have come here just since I added that . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an interview with the filmmaker who made the pro assisted suicide film of a man with motor neurone disease (ALS) receiving assisted suicide. He admits he did it as as advocacy effort to get us to accept the hemlock. The man who died shared the agenda.The filmaker says the Terri Schiavo case . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicola Karras’ argument for conservatism leaves traditional partisan rhetoric in the dust: "The more we depend on government, the less connection we have with one another." Her graceful essay is not to be missed. Ladyblog’s Manblogger: Your broken moral compass that always . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeffrey Kripal is the latest professor of religious studies to come out, in good modern style, writing off Christianity (and presumably Judaism) as a pooped-out and poopy old farce for stunted schmucks who worship, in Aldous Huxley’s (Joycean, not Blakean) phrase, "Old Noboddady." . . . . Continue Reading »
You may have read on our homepage : Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., died this morning at age ninety. I was not privileged to know him well, but I will not forget visiting him with Nathaniel this fall at Fordham. He could not talk, but his eyes were as bright as ever, especially as we told him stories . . . . Continue Reading »
The much-anticipated Vatican instruction Dignitas Personae was released today on the USCCB website. Here’s an excerpt from the clear and forceful document’s conclusion: In virtue of the Church’s doctrinal and pastoral mission, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has . . . . Continue Reading »
Our own Peter Lawler is the James Brown of the blogosphere, the hardest working man in the business. Over at the the Encyclopedia Britannica blog , he argues that a "postmodernism, rightly understood" is essentially a realism that counters our modern tendency towards . . . . Continue Reading »
Human exceptionalism is under attack from every corner, and I think it is driving us crazy. Popular culture is part of the problem. Apparently, the new movie The Day the Earth Stood Still has aliens destroying the human race in order to save the planet. In the coming attractions, we see cities like . . . . Continue Reading »
Also receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal was Chuck Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship and a co-founder of Evangelicals and Catholics Together. We send our hearty congratulations to him along with Prof. George . . . . . Continue Reading »
One of our leading experts on the ethics and public policy of scientific innovation, Yuval Levin has written a searching and philosophically deep book on the complicated relationship between science and politics in America. He addresses the divergent ways in which the right and the left typically . . . . Continue Reading »
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